Virginia Woolf

Hong Kong’s Southorn Playground, haven for sports and socialising amid the urban jungle

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Hong Kong’s Southorn Playground, haven for sports and socialising amid the urban jungle

The playground, originally called Wan Chai Children’s Playground, opened in 1934; it was later renamed after Sir Wilfred Thomas Southorn, Hong Kong’s colonial secretary from 1925 to 1936. A photograph taken around 1950 shows Southorn Playground nestled among rows of tenement houses in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai neighbourhood. Photo: Hong Kong Public Libraries For history … Read more

Look for Sri Lanka’s connections to Southorn Playground in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai on a trip around the island nation, ‘Pearl of the Indian Ocean’

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Look for Sri Lanka’s connections to Southorn Playground in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai on a trip around the island nation, ‘Pearl of the Indian Ocean’

Southorn was introduced to Woof by her brother, the English literary figure Leonard Woolf, when the two men worked as colonial administrators in what was then British Ceylon. Southorn Playground in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, is linked to colonial Ceylon (now called Sri Lanka). Photo: Jonathan Wong Bella Woof was an accomplished writer in her … Read more